Editing Hildegard Knef (section)

==Personal life==
Knef was married three times and divorced twice.<ref name="The New York Times" /> Her first marriage was in 1947 to Kurt Hirsch, a U.S. information officer. They divorced in 1952. The second time she married the actor and record producer David Anthony Palastanga, on 30 June 1962. Knef had a daughter with him born in 1968, Christina Antonia.<ref name=Gale>{{cite web|title=Hildegard Knef|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=lehman_main&tabID=T002&searchId=R1&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&contentSet=GALE%7CH1000054947&&docId=GALE%7CH1000054947&docType=GALE&role=LitRC|publisher=Gale|access-date=29 April 2014|year=2002}}</ref> When she died, she was still married to her third husband, Paul von Schell.

On 1 February 2002, Knef died at the age of 76 of a [[lung infection]] in Berlin, where she had moved after the [[German reunification]]. She smoked heavily for most of her life and suffered from [[emphysema]].<ref name="The New York Times" />